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Life Has Its Own Mortal Loveliness

Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, St. Paul, and the Transfiguration of Mortality Adapted from a presentation given March 6 at St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, Houston. I...

Death Cafés and the Resurrection of the Body

Among many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world was an increasing sense of mortality. This was very evident in the circles of...

The Hour Glass of Time and Emptying Nests

My daughter is moving into college this month. Emotionally, I’m okay (so far), but my mind is really confused. I don’t know how so...

To Set Our Sights on the Cross

By Cole Hartin Lent is good time to think about death. It’s a good time to think about death because it’s the time when we...

Dust and Ashes

By Joseph Mangina "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” So run the familiar words spoken during the imposition of ashes...

From the Ashes We Will Rise: The Power of Ash Wednesday

By James Richardson Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime. A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake...

Divine Irreplaceability

By Ephraim Radner One of the most difficult things I have done as a pastor is to stand beside people as they face a terrible...

Ten Theological Theses on COVID-19 and the Providence of God

By Cole Hartin At the risk of adding to the influx of handwringing and punditry on all things coronavirus, I want stake out ten theological...

Poetry From the Age of Pandemic

Contemplations, by Marly Youmans

What an Early Anglican Can Teach Us about Sickness Today

By Angela Heetderks It’s tempting, in times of scientific uncertainty, to think we have nothing to learn from Christians in the distant past. We would...

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